Paul Gascoigne Quotes

• I don’t really do pranks any more. I have a laugh in the dressing room here, where it’s safe, and the guys don’t go to the papers and tell them what I’ve done.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Laugh, Laughing, Really

• Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn’t got a contract. I’ll be there for the game and I’ll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.

  Paul Gascoigne

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• But if I wasn’t playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Play, Weekend

• But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Always

• Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I’m going to.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Hopefully

• I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Football Club

• I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Drinking, Thinking

• I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don’t know when.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Want, Manager

• At the end of it, I’ll maybe do a coaching badge but I’m not going to get forced into things.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Force

• I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you’ve got to. But I try not say that I’m an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it’s a disease I’ve got.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Accept, Disease

• I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman’s decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Game, Players

• I like to help create team spirit in the dressing room. I feel that I’ve got loads of love to give.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Like

• I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I’m learning to say I’ve got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Never, Learning

• I never predict anything, and I never will.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Never

• I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Myself, Responsibility

• I won player of the year and players’ player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Time, Game, Player

• I’ll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Game

• I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Health, Work

• I’m going to do things when they are right for me.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right

• I’ve had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Friendship, Love

  Tags in Help, Friends

Paul Gascoigne (28)

Birth:	27th May, 1967
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Football Player

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